For over four years Birmingham band Miccoli made up of twin brothers, Adriano and Alessandro , along with their sister, Francesca , have toured the US and the UK honing a sound that has been compared to everyone from Snow Patrol to Coldplay.
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They have gigged in the Viper Rooms and every other key rock venue across America , written songs ,worked with legendary producers .
They have hung out with Motley Crue, written songs, had an altercation with Paris Hilton in a toilet. Written more songs, been cautioned by the highway patrol, written songs and learnt a great deal about producing their own music.
They have played the O2 Wireless festival, lived in their car with a mobile bar and cooker they built themselves, written and performed more songs, had one of the members of the band suffer a near fatal heart operation.
They have turned down a gig for Kevin Costner, wrote and performed even more songs , moved to Penang and landed a sponsorship deal , shot their debut video , written more songs , performed more gigs and that is just the half of it.
They look almost too good to be true and it is important to underline this as in itself given what they have been through on the road to still be in any shape at all is a victory and given that their tales of what has happened on the road is more akin to a thrash metal band it is clear fate has smiled on them in many ways.
They sound like they have been having hits for the last five years, the vocals of Adriano and Alessandro who swap lead duties are threaded together by the hypnotic beauty of Francesca’s whose voice is the backdrop to the tight sound they create.
Yet the beauty of their music also highlights an intensity and a feeling that they have indeed paid their debt to rock n roll in the most extreme ways.
Although gigging , recording and writing have been their life for the past few years , the focus is firmly now on releasing their music.
This in no small part , as referred to earlier, is due to the band nearly not being here at all if Alessandro’s heart condition , in which his heart rate escalated to 250bpm , he underwent emergency surgery, then had to have four further heart operations, had proved the end rather than the beginning for Miccoli.
This traumatic period gave the band time to regroup, get serious, rethink and put their adventures and life experiences into context finding solace in the studio , re-defining their writing and taking their music to another level, all their experiences and emotion being combined into a musical cocktail that is Miccoli’s sound of today.